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Budgeting Your Financial Resources (The Mint)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students plan and maintain balanced budgets.
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Where Have All the Dinosaurs Gone?

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to and discuss Patrick's Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick. They have a pretend dinosaur dig using dog biscuits and chicken bones. Students discuss how fossils are formed and make reproductions of them. After discussing the...
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Concern + Action = Clean Air Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a service project about improving air quality. In this air quality lesson, students understand the problems and solutions for improvement of air quality issues. Students discuss and choose an air quality service...
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Internet Exploring

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students access the Internet to answer a variety of questions posed in this technology lesson.
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Trash Disposal Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine the differences between reusable, compostable and recyclable trash.
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At the Site: A Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct field research on a historical site. They develop a scavenger hunt list, participate in a field trip to the historical site, and complete the scavenger hunt.
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Major Holocaust Themes in Elie Wiesel's Memoir, Night

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars read accounts of children during the Holocaust and read Elie Wiesel's "Night". Using the internet, they share ideas and discuss topics with peers across the nation. They examine the role of the individual in the...
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Creating an Animated Film

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop an understanding of the animation process by working collaboratively to create an animated film. This instructional activity suggests using digital cameras, iMovie, Photoshop, and GarageBand.
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Pirate Wanted Poster

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the character traits of a 17th and 18th century pirate by internet research and the creation of a Pirate "Wanted" Poster using iPhoto and a program called Comic Life.
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What Does Dna Look Like?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build DNA strands and practice base pairing rules using an interactive website in this technology-based lesson for a high school science class. This lesson includes links to the interactive website, a worksheet, and a video...
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Layers of the Earth: Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in a lesson that is about investigating the different layers of the earth and defining how the plates move over the mantle. They engage in a variety of activities and use mathematics to create projects to...
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Let's Talk Trash

For Students 5th - 6th
In this solid waste worksheet, learners classify the different types of solid wastes found in landfills into given categories. Students predict and tally the total number of each type of item found in the landfill using slips of paper....
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Project Whistlestop:Missouri Vacation Learning Unit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders reserach the state of Missouri. In this Missouri History lesson, 4th graders plan a vacation to a region of Missouri. Students work in collaborative groups to determine all aspects of the trip. Students use math...
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Breakfast: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate nutrition and the role breakfast plays in everyday life.  In this healthy eating activity, students discuss their own breakfast habits and the meal they would prefer to have every morning.  Students...
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Early Explorers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how the environment and climate affected Pre-Colombian settlements. In this civilization lesson, 5th graders view pictures of different Native American tribes in different places and discuss how different groups...
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Governance

For Teachers 1st
First graders make connections between the purposes of rules. In this governing lesson students listen to a story about rules being broken. Students identify rules that they have at school or home.
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Finding the Stakeholders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider biomedical ethical issues. In this ethics lesson, students examine a case study about a boy with leukemia whose father refuses his blood transfusions based on faith. Students consider the principles of the ethical...
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The Constitution

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A study of the Constitution can lead students into an exploration of civil rights, laws, and history.
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Activity on United States Moon Landing: Apollo 11

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use the World Wide Web to access additional information needed to complete a set of questions. They demonstrate an understanding of latitude and longitude by interpreting a lunar map.
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Forces on an Airplane and Resulting Motion

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read from a NASA Web-based textbook, then students demonstrate an understanding of the text by answering questions about the forces on an airplane and their resulting motions.
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Zen and the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experience Zen philosophies reflected in artwork, poetry, and architecture. Students will explore these connections and expand the discussion to include a professional author of their choice.
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Employee Payroll Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students simulate creating and calculating employees payrolls using hourly wages, deductions, and proper taxes.
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Technology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers trace and analyze the impact of the atomic bomb on warfare, society and government. They apply this process to other more modern technological inventions in our lives.
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POWER UP!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare and contrast different energy sources and the trade-offs of using them.

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